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Skunk City
03-05-2014, 08:45 PM
Dusted the cobwebs off my rods and hit the open water with FastEddie today. Drowned shiners and casted plugs in a few different spots, water was cold! USGS chart says 33 degrees. Not much happening at all until this weird catch. Had something wack my 4" swimshad, Pike right? Wrong lol. Legit mouth hooked Mirror Carp, my first Mirror. Ugly fish, but it chased the skunk on a cold winter day. This time last year we were crushing Pike, oh how things have changed! Back to the ice this weekend!


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ScowardNJ
03-05-2014, 08:53 PM
Whoa! Never seen one of those things....These fish are freezing their scales off! Always fun beating the skunk by catching a freak!
stevejordan
03-05-2014, 10:35 PM
thing looks disgusting lol
Jigman13
03-05-2014, 10:40 PM
Niiice... I've never even heard of a mirror carp. Bet it still pulled!!
saxmatt
03-05-2014, 10:46 PM
Nice catch! Mirrors are hard to find in NJ.
GetANet
03-05-2014, 10:55 PM
Cool looking fish and way to wet a line in the open water!
iceehot6766
03-05-2014, 11:04 PM
WOW!....That is a very unique looking carp....Good job....
FASTEDDIE29
03-06-2014, 07:52 AM
Gotta beat the SKUNK somehow. That crazy Carp took that swim bait like a champ. Definately an interesting specimen. Damn water is pretty cold still. Well be on the ice for a while. YEA BUDDY!!!
Mikey topaz
03-06-2014, 08:26 AM
Good stuff boyz,and x2 ugly sob!
kcritch
03-06-2014, 10:22 AM
Those are very cool fish....and a freaky way to get one too! Nicely Done Skunk.
njfisherman1975
03-06-2014, 10:28 AM
No teeth on that critter!!! Just big scales and a vacuum mouth!!! Way to go...
acaravaglia
03-06-2014, 09:34 PM
That's one fish that's new to me. I knew we had common and grass carp.
Chris_JC
03-07-2014, 07:13 AM
Cool fish. I have only seen/caught one while fishing passaic in Paterson a few years back behind the high school. That was an interesting place to wet a line.
MaCe1
03-08-2014, 08:46 AM
Very cool, very ugly fish. Congrats on the nice catch. Still amazes me the variety of fish available here in North Jersey.
dakota560
03-08-2014, 12:39 PM
SC,

Caught one of those carp I would guess maybe ten years back at the Dundee Dam. My recollection is my friend I was fishing with snagged it. All these years I thought it was a normal carp which had been exposed to too many toxins but after seeing your picture I'm almost positive it was a mirror carp. Never knew there was such a species. They're certainly not going to win any awards for looks but you learn something new every day.

Crazy catch on a plastic. Was it corn flavored!

Dakota